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Last week, I met a Cameroonian journalist who worked in the Congo until he fled following a series of threats and an attack on his home by armed men who assaulted his sister. Elie Smith, a TV host who documented alleged abuses by police and was outspoken in his criticism of the government, said he thought he had been under surveillance and that he had received multiple threats via text message.

New
York, August 28, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by
cyber-attacks on several websites on Tuesday, including The New York Times, whose site was disabled for
several hours. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers who support
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, took credit for the attack via its Twitter account. The group also
claimed to have attacked the websites of Twitter and The Huffington Post U.K.

After
the Salvadoran online newsmagazine El
Faro exposed a secret government deal with criminal gangs last month, its
staff faced repercussions that illustrate the new and complicated risks facing
journalists worldwide. El Faro'sreport, which said
the government provided more lenient treatment of imprisoned gangsters in
exchange for the groups' agreement to slow down their murderous practices,
addressed one of the most sensitive topics facing journalists today--crime and
its many interconnections with government.